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by arien 11y ago
English is my... third language, and I do have trouble understanding certain accents over the phone, natives or not. I usually ask them to repeat their statement a second time. If that doesn't work I politely blame the line/sound
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by arien 11y ago
How do we learn to talk when we are toddlers? You point at something and ask what is it, you learn its name, you repeat it out loud (use it in a few phrases, with more or less success). You generally ask something about it, too (what does i
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by arien 11y ago
How about Sensu? http://sensuapp.org/ I haven't personally used it (yet). But I have heard good things about it.
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by arien 14y ago
I think the slight difference is that, in the case of cable TV you have to endure the commercials until they finish to access the content that interests you. In this particular case of the Kindle, ads are only on the lock screen and you sim
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by arien 14y ago
One reason they may not enjoy as much is because being a simple employee following orders it's often not as exciting as being the boss and calling the shots. I mean, both can be very exciting, but I'm sure they're at very different levels.
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by arien 15y ago
Couldn't this vulnerability simply be published without mentioning who is directly affected? E.g. "under x and y circumstances, it is possible to do z and everyone is advised to check and correct this". If this is not an option it means it
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by arien 15y ago
Thank you for the explanation. I believe that is already available in some email marketing services, although they are part of bigger systems, probably too bloated and pricey for a start-up environment or a specific project. Something more
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by arien 15y ago
Could you elaborate a bit more on what is not offered by current tools? I have been in charge of reviewing and integrating various email marketing solutions for some of the companies I've worked for, I've found them usually quite complete i
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by arien 15y ago
Those were just examples. And I'm not at all concerned about the download time, having wi-fi and all. My concern is the space that takes on my phone (and why). But if we're talking about speed specifically, do you think a 10Mb app would be
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by arien 15y ago
Google+ is a good example of something that is plain wrong in my opinion. I uninstalled it months ago, so I can't tell if it has great improvements. But from what I recall, it can be easily compared to... the Facebook app, for example. What
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by arien 15y ago
Size can be a meaningful metric. Would you prefer to download a 1Mb BMP or a 12Kb JPG? Why are all the JS minify tools so popular? Just some examples. I'm actually surprised that no one else is curious about why some apps take 1Mb and other
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by arien 15y ago
Where is the complaint? I'm using a Desire. Well known for being an awesome HTC phone with just one flaw: very little internal space. So, this sort of limitation has made me very aware of the space any app takes. I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 wi
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by arien 15y ago
I have never used Instagram. Could anyone please explain/justify the 13Mb size of the App? I'm just wondering, because the biggest App I have on my phone is Google Maps, which takes around 12Mb. The next one takes 6Mb at most. I know games
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What the [UK] budget means for start-ups(kernelmag.com)
43 points by arien 15y ago|16 comments
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by arien 15y ago
April Fool's, perhaps?
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by arien 15y ago
There is something clearly wrong in that sentence. Windows 8 and Windows 95 aren't exactly "browsers". Which makes you wonder if the one who wrote the article did an innocent mistake or really doesn't know what she's talking about.
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by arien 15y ago
Yep, that is another good sign. For the record, some ideas I thought a couple of years ago keep coming back from time to time. Sometimes it's just not the right moment or you're not on the right mindset, even if the idea is good. What I mea
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by arien 15y ago
I am prone to have zillions of ideas. Some are good, some are terrible. They all seem amazing the first time, but after a while they lose the shine and I leave them incomplete. So, the first test for me is to write down everything I come up
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by arien 15y ago
No hard evidence, I remember reading about it when I moved to the UK. To me it simply means: in times of stress/danger, don't panic, don't lose your focus. I find it very inspirational. There's almost always a solution to our problems, but
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by arien 15y ago
We are all different, but that doesn't mean we must be treated different at all times. At work we are all workers. We may be treated differently depending on our position within the company, because that is relevant to our job and duties. B
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by arien 15y ago
Yes, but these actions need not the same response as others that were meant to be harmful. There's a difference between murder and homicide, for example.
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by arien 15y ago
Exactly. The moment we stop looking at "men" and "women" or "black" and "white" and start looking at "people" is when these things are truly sorted out.
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by arien 15y ago
Maybe simply talking, explaining to those who alienate us would save a lot of frustration. Some comments are made innocently, they do not mean any real harm. But the perception of the receiving person might be different, depending on their
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by arien 15y ago
She is asking the video to be taken down, not merely pointing that it's inappropriate -> "I don't like it, take it down". I'm just talking censorship because it's the nth thing of this kind I've seen this week alone and I'm starting to
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by arien 15y ago
This is slowly getting out of hand. I would even dare to speak of censorship. Who cares what a random girl in a video is doing? Was she forced to appear in there? Then what's the problem? It's not even "fucking gross", it's just a couple of
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by arien 15y ago
Again, it's not just Blizzard I'm talking about. Every single MMO company since a few years ago is going this way. Network stability is mostly tested on specific moments like stress test weekends or at the end of a beta, when they let every
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by arien 15y ago
WoW had some glaring bugs when it came out. Of course, the start of the game is always better, because it has received a lot more attention (it's crucial to get players hooked in) and because it has received a lot more testing (how many tes
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by arien 15y ago
Betas (open, and closed too, to a degree) these days seem more like, "let's subtly have people try our product for free, get hooked and generate buzz while at it". It's the same as a free trial (although calling it like this has less positi
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by arien 15y ago
I suppose we learnt nothing from the movies :) I find this fascinating, however, it raises so many questions and doubts... Extinct animals are extinct for a reason. What makes us think that these creatures would be a good addition to the cu
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by arien 15y ago
There are various answers: a) There should be no key developers, no indispensable people in your projects. This is often hard to achieve on small companies. b) Communication: In a group of developers there should be good communication about

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